Around Town 9/6/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Jo Cooper, Chair of the Lamoine Committee on Aging invites listeners to the Resource Fair today in Lamoine, and 100 years ago today: Maine becomes part of aviation history.
FMI:
www.lamoine-me.gov/
www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=208657

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 9/5/24

Host: Stephanie McFeeters
Guest: Emily Bader, [email protected]
Production Assistance: Amy Browne

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Substance use disorder, opioid crisis, recovery homes, addiction treatment approaches, Wabanaki Nations.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/wabanaki-addiction-treatment/
themainemonitor.org/safe-harbor-recovery/

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Around Town 9/5/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

WERU General Manager Matt Murphy with an update on the station’s transmitter.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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Healthy Options 9/4/24: The Importance of Local Hospitals

Host/Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Production Assistant: Petra Hall
Technical Assistance: Joel Mann & Amy Browne

Healthy Options: For Well-being & Being Well

This month:

– Why is a local hospital so important for the community in which it is located? How can hospital consolidation affect local hospitals?
– How is the success of a local hospital evaluated? How did Waldo County General Hospital rate, before it became a part of MaineHealth?
– Waldo County General Hospital was a successful, profitable, independent hospital, with innovative and award-winning programs. How has that changed since becoming part of MaineHealth?
– How can a local hospital be innovative in developing & providing services? How might they share these innovations & successful practices with other healthcare entities, nationally or even internationally?
– What is the importance/value of having a hospice unit at your local hospital? What is the importance of having a local Ob-Gyn unit at your community hospital?
– What impacts can be caused by closing Ob-Gyn and hospice units? What are the effects of reducing healthcare services which the community has relied upon for many years?
– Who loses their jobs locally when hospital services are eliminated or redirected to out-of-town facilities? Beyond the hospital staff who are let go, how is the whole community affected?
– Who now decides what services are provided? Is there any local autonomy or are the decisions made by people without connection to the local hospital & community, who view the hospital as a corporate asset rather than a vital community asset?
– What can the Belfast City Council do, to protect hospital services that the community needs & relies upon?
– What is the impact of privately-owned & operated urgent care facilities in a community with a local hospital?

Guest(s): 
Mike Towey, former Director of the Speech Language Pathology Department at Waldo County General Hospital; employed at WCGH for 40 years.

FMI:
Beckers Hospital Review
www.beckershospitalreview.com
and
www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/the-hospital-with-the-biggest-community-health-investment-in-each-state-per-lown-ranking.html

Pam’s Story (illustrates expertise that can be developed & sustained at a small hospital, & how innovation at WCGH was essential to her successful recovery):
www.mainehealth.org/mainehealth-cancer-care/cancer-conditions-services/head-neck-cancer-care/pams-survivor-story

MaineHealth proposal for Waldo County Healthcare Inc. 12/15/08:
www1.maine.gov/dhhs/sites/maine.gov.dhhs/files/documents/dlc/Waldo-County-PA.pdf

About the host:
Rhonda Feiman is a nationally-certified, licensed acupuncturist practicing in Belfast, Maine since 1993. She primarily practices Toyohari Japanese acupuncture, using gentle and powerful non-insertion needle techniques, and also utilizes Chinese acupuncture and herbology. In addition, Rhonda is a practitioner of Qi Gong and an instructor of Tai Chi Chuan in the Yang Family tradition.

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World Ocean Radio 9/4/24: How to Understand the Ocean in the 21st Century

Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Trisha Badger

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
It has been nearly twenty years since the Ocean Literacy Principles and Framework were first adopted by classroom educators to promote the ocean as a central focus for climate, water, food, health, exploration, science, and more. Today it has been incorporated into the agenda of the UN IOC; it seems Ocean Literacy is riding a new wave of interest and possibility. This week on World Ocean Radio we are laying out the basic tenets and truths of Ocean Literacy, describing the foundational assumptions that underlie the matrix, including the first principle: the earth is one big ocean with many features.

WORLD OCEAN RADIO
5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter Neill, lifelong ocean advocate and maritime expert. A catalog of more than 700 episodes offer perspectives on global ocean issues and viable solutions, and celebrate exemplary projects. Available for RSS feed and for broadcast by college and community radio stations worldwide. You will also find this week’s World Ocean Radio episode at Exchange.prx.org, at Audioport.org, WorldOceanObservatory.org where the full catalog of episodes is searchable by theme, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Around Town 9/4/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Upcoming events.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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Outside the Box 9/3/24: “Our Military Mind”

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger

About the host:
Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

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Around Town 9/3/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Events and 100 years ago today in Maine news.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

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